CFO Moves: Wacker Chemie, SuperGroup

Wacker Chemie, a German chemical products company, named Dr. Tobias Ohler chief financial officer, effective Nov. 1. Mr. Ohler is an executive board member. He will succeed Dr. Joachim Rauhut, who will depart the company at the expiration of his contract on Oct. 31. Mr. Rauhut received compensation valued at $1.8 million in the company’s 2014 fiscal year, according to its 2014 annual report.

SuperGroup PLC, a U.K. clothing and accessories company, named Nick Wharton CFO. Mr. Wharton has been interim CFO since February, and, according to an earlier news release, was previously chief executive at Dunelm Group At SuperGroup, he assumed the interim CFO role in connection with Shaun Wills’ resignation from the CFO role after the company learned Mr. Wills “was made the subject of a personal bankruptcy order.” The company in that earlier news release said: “This is a personal matter, on which SuperGroup will not comment further, and is wholly unrelated to the financial position of the company.” Mr. Wills received compensation valued at $803,563 including a salary of $394,278 during the company’s fiscal year ended in April, 2014, according to its 2014 annual report.